feat: scripts - ddcutil script to handle brightness control for extern…

[Melk0rr]

A new script based on the default brightnesscontrol.sh but using ddcutil to control the brightness of external monitors.

The main issue is : DDC/CI protocol is slow

Pull Request

Description

• This script tries to achieve what the original brightnesscontrol script does with brightnessctl but for external monitors
• As I use 3 external monitors, I lacked a utility to easily change brightness. So here it is
• Dependencies: ddcutil only
• Related issue

Type of change

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• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update (non-breaking change; modified files are limited to the documentations)
• Technical debt (a code change that does not fix a bug or add a feature but makes something clearer for devs)
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Checklist

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• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document.
• My code follows the code style of this project.
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• My change requires a change to the documentation.
• I have updated the documentation accordingly.
• I have added a changelog entry.
• I have added necessary comments/documentation to my code.
• I have added tests to cover my changes.
• I have tested my code locally and it works as expected.
• All new and existing tests passed.

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Additional context

[guoyatingg]

Good afternoon, I'm not a programmer at all, but I changed something in your script and it seems to work faster
brightnesscontrol.zip

[Melk0rr]

Yep, you're right, updated to implement a variable

[kRHYME7]

Sadly I can't test this one yet as my external monitor don't have ddc/ci, will try to find someone having that proto.

[abenezerw]

This works, would be nice to control external monitor brightness from ui.

[abenezerw]

but for some reason cant control it with scroll wheel over waybar though. just from terminal. is that also possible? @Melk0rr